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燃 - Burn
Because 然, the 'Sort of thing' character, drifted to mean 'natural', scribes added Fire to coin 燃 and literally restore the sense of Burn; it’s the historical ‘fire + sort-of-thing’ fix you can remember from Japan’s burnable-trash days, ‘燃えるごみ’.
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燃 - Burn
Index #918
Grade 5
16 strokes
JLPT Level: N2
Readings: ネン, も・える, も・やす
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もえる 燃える
to burn, to undergo combustion
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